Sometimes we do things just because “That’s how it’s always been done.” Sometimes you gotta mix things up. Like put the ketchup in your milk and the chocolate on your french fries. Read a book in the dark. Clip your fingernails in the privacy of your own home instead of out in public.

I’ve shaken my family’s world up by existing. I am 23 and I’m into children’s franchises like Pokemon, Disney Princess and Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! and people expect me to be grown up. I have an uncle who refuses to grow up and put his own dorkiness behind him.